A DIVIDED COMMUNITY The Cuban exile is another country; Miami is its capital. As is well known, the Cuban exodus to the US has taken place over the course of several major waves. The First Wave: Cuba’s Elite Nelson Amaro and Alejandro Portes (1972) portrayed the different phases of the Cuban migration as changing over […]

In October 2013, the Cuban government announced the beginning of a monetary unification process aimed at redressing one of the greatest distortions in the island’s economy. This unification process was to take place in phases and build towards its final stage, the “Día Zero” (“Day Zero”), the day when the Cuban Convertible Peso (CUC) would […]

The re-opening of embassies by the United States and Cuba, and the measures taken by the Administration of President Obama to move away from a policy of pushing the Cuban government to liberalize its political and economic system to one of opening new opportunities for collaboration between the two governments, have created high expectations—both in […]

Fidel Castro intentó por muchos años impulsar en Venezuela una revolución parecida a la cubana. Este objetivo se cumplió cuarenta años más tarde, cuando Hugo Chávez llegó a la presidencia del país en 1999. Desde entonces, Venezuela sostiene una alianza estratégica e ideológica con Cuba.1 Los primeros años de la experiencia chavista se dieron dentro […]